Ekiti State Governor, AYODELE FAYOSE, has filed a suit against the EFCC at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The N20bn suit, according to the governor is for placing him on a watch list and directing that he should be arrested, if he attempts to travel out of the country.

EFCC had requested that the Nigeria Customs Service place the Governor on a watchlist following fraud allegations against him.

The governor had also on September 16, 2018, denied claims that he plans to fly out of the country as soon as his tenure ends.

His media aide, LERE OLAYINKA speaks to Inspiration fm TAIWO OLAPADE on the Governor’s decision to go to court.

The National Assembly has adjourned plenary over the deaths of a member from Kwara state, FUNKE ADEDOYIN and former Speaker, House of Representatives, BENJAMIN NZERIBE.

At the Upper chamber, Senator representing Yobe North, AHMAD LAWAN moved a motion for the adjournment of the first plenary session of the Senate after resumption.

He raised the motion after the Senate President BUKOLA SARAKI, read 16 letters that the legislative chambers had received, while it was on its annual recess.

After raising the motion, the Senate resolved to observe a minute of silence in honour of the departed souls.

The National Assembly resumed plenary yesterday after a long break which lasted over two months.

Former Senate Leader, ALI NDUME had this comment on the possible impeachment of the Senate President, BUKOLA SARAKI.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has set up a special team to interrogate Governor AYODELE FAYOSE of Ekiti State next week when his term expires from office.

FAYOSE, who has been governor since October 16, 2014, will lose his immunity at exactly 11.59pm on October 15, 2018, thereby giving the EFCC the constitutional right to arrest, detain and prosecute him.

The governor is expected to report at the EFCC head office in Abuja to meet with the commission’s Director of Operations, UMAR MOHAMMED, after which he will be grilled by a team of operatives.

FAYOSE is under investigation for allegedly receiving over N1.2bn from a former National Security Adviser, SAMBO DASUKI through a former Minister of State for Defence, MUSILIU OBANIKORO.

The money was allegedly handed over to FAYOSE during the build-up to the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State.

FAYOSE’s aide, ABIODUN AGBELE, and others had been arraigned by the EFCC but he was excluded because of his immunity.

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has signed a new executive order which among other things compels Nigerians with offshore assets and incomes to pay taxes on them.

The Executive Order (008), tagged Voluntary Offshore Assets Regularisation Scheme (VOARS), was signed by the President on Monday and takes effect from the same day according to the Presidency.

A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, GARBA SHEHU said with the order, the Buhari administration is tightening regulations on money laundering and tax evasion.

He disclosed the President is however, optimistic that the new scheme will help to facilitate the expedient regularisation of offshore assets connected to Nigeria and lead to “a new expanded tax base to fund the Nigeria Infrastructure Fund in Switzerland”.